Rose George's Ninety Percent Of Everything

Rose George becomes the icebreaker for the shipping industry, raising the planet’s awareness regarding its inability to survive without the service. However, apart from explaining how paramount shipping actually is, the author draws the attention to the lives of the ships’ crews and the dark side of the freight industry. Ninety Percent of Everything is a work that introduces the reader to the world of shipping that supplies the humanity’s life in combination with its negative impacts in a form of a casual talk.
The first chapter serves as the actual introduction into the whole story behind the book and allows the reader to resonate with the human lens of the reading. George is neat in her writing style, which allows perceiving the heavy topic

The shipmates become totally alienated from the land-livers and their encounter resembles more of a tourist experience between State Water and State Land. Marius wandered the cold Sunday town of France with everything shut simply to see other people who were not shipmates (George 103). The idea behind this small example emphasizes the rift that separates the lives of people on land and on carrier liners. The closed cabins and boundless waters are what carrier crews see most of the time of the year. Their needs alter and their relation to society and experience in public changes as well. Consequently, working in freight shipping has its costs of psychologically altering time and societal perception of the shipmates. The third chapter tells the said complex statement in easier words and stories to show the difference. Sailors are not welcomed by port-dwellers because of their chaotic leisure time with sex and alcohol (George 100). That banal statement enforces the thought about the basic needs such a sex, relaxation, and diversity of communication becoming exaggerated or distorted in crew members because of their unavailability most of the time. Therefore, freight shipping sailors develop different basic values and needs sets than the land-dwellers. The chapter shares how the order is kept in such intense and

The author provides livestock carriers as a stark example because it enhances the emotional intensity of the perception of the unethical business practices. For example, more than 40,000 of sheep and cattle die an agonizing death while being transported from Australia annually (George 135). One can only imagine the overall conditions of transportation the animals enjoy, which probably also find a mirroring practice in the living conditions for the crew. The taps have dirty water and cockroaches are everywhere (George 136), to say the least. The chapter’s data implies the horrible conditions freight shipping companies use as a part of their cost control and profit maximization strategies. In addition, they inflict damage to the environment by excessive muck that the ship crews have to tap away into the water because it is impossible to bear with the issue otherwise (George 137). Apart from the mentioned objective, material damage, there is collateral, psychological one as well - the families. Families of the said sailors have to worry about them every day those are at sea because of the conditions. The sinking of Danny F II cost dozens of bodies floated ashore in Syria and Turkey in addition to thousands of drowned cattle and sheep; the families were devastated (George 147). The flags of convenience serve as the